Doug Belshaw has quite a discussion going at his blog under the post Politics: the biggest problem in education. Doug posted kind of a sprawling piece that touches on business, government, administration, and even school vision.
I’m a believer in government being as small as possible: whilst the state needs to intervene in the ‘big picture’ of education, I think there are other organizations and bodies eminently more suitable to deal with assessment and examinations, for example.
I posted a couple of comments, because I’m fascinated by the “big picture” and how we develop a coherent vision that garners teacher buy-in. The short version of my idea: get the teachers together and lead them to develop their own vision for their school.
First, find the single common answer to three questions: 1. What are we deeply passionate about? 2. What can we do better than anyone in the world? 3. What drives our economic engine? Then, make everything your school does work toward that goal.
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